If Judaism is the oldest religion followed by Islam and Christianity why are the oldest religious relics-?

Question

anything but any of those three?

From the Egyptian pyramids to the South American Temples of old to the India temples of the Hindu to all sorts of other places and cultures, there is enough evidence to suggest that there was other religions before and they only died out because of new more popular religions and/.or because of mass murder because of the new religions.But not all religions were crushed and not all faiths destroyed because of the rise of newer faiths.But the fact remains that no temple and no artifact predates those of the ancient and in many cases died out religions.Why is that, do you think?

Every articfact of these three newer religions are most often less then 3, 500 years old.The Egyptians had already built many temples that were thousands of years old by then.Where is some older then that Jewish, Islamic, and/or Christian relics that predate that?If the Bible, Koran, or Torah is right then one of those faiths predates all and should be able to prove it.

Answer 1

Judaism is not the oldest religion.
Its gods (and yes until the 6th century BCE they had more then one) El, YHWY and Asherah, for example were part of the Cannanite Pantheon and existed before the Jews did.
Hinduism is difficult to date but it is certainly at least 4000 years old. The Jews then were not a distinct tribal entity and were probably just southern hill tribes of Cannanites. Their language is derived and closely related to Cannanite. The central american religions still exist in hybrid forms but what religion is not a hybrid form. Many of the myths in the Old Testament are actually Mesopotamian in origin as can be proven by the dating of the original cuniform clay tablets, written before the Jews existed. Archaeology has shown that all societies have practiced some form of religion. Even neanderthals have religeous relics (cave bear cult). From memory the oldest known temple still in existence is on the island of Malta and I think it is over 6000 years old.

Answer 2

Honey, your logic is what is messed up here because you are missing one important piece of the puzzle. The Torah was written by Moses, who clearly lived during New Kingdom Egypt (which has been practicing polytheism for a very, VERY long time prior). The Torah is basically a codified version of God coming to Moses and telling him what to do and how to behave (with the exception of Genesis which was retrospective). Lots of peoples came up with their own religions, take the American peoples who developed in isolation of any influence by Judaism/Christianity/Islam until the Renaissance period. The fact of the matter is Judaism was God's first ATTEMPT to reveal the truth to humanity because humanity had STRAYED from the truth since the Garden of Eden. His intervention was REQUIRED since humanity had deviated so much from the truth. Christianity is the conclusion of his revelation. Judaism rejects this revelation. And Islam, born several hundred years after Christianity, claims Judaims and Christianity have it all wrong, and God had to intervene yet again to correct people--hence Islam. The time these "religions" were established is totally inconsequential. You're arguing a pointless argument, since their establishment is based upon the fact that they were fully aware of the existance of other religions and REJECTED them as fabrications. The fallacy in your logic is that age has something to do with whether the religion is true or not, which clearly it doesn't.

Answer 3

Listed below are the major religions in order of their appearance on the world's scene:

1. Some historians say that Hinduism had its roots over 3,500 years ago.

2. Next came Buddhism

3. Then Taoism and Confucianism, which together have dominated the religious life of nearly one quarter of the world’s population for the past 2,000 years

4. Shintoism

5. Judaism

6. Christianity

7. and finally Islam

Answer 4

Judaism is the oldest religion in the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. Actually, traces of Judaism can be found in older Semitic religions of the region of which not a whole lot is known.
There are, as you pointed out, much older religions elsewhere in the world.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Judaism is technically the oldest religion. We have the Dead Sea Scrolls to back that up. But I guess its technically what you believe in. Islam is actually th enewest world religion (as far as widely followed ones). But many believe that Hinduism and Buddhism are the oldest.

Answer 7

the big 3 faiths aren't the oldest religions and I've never heard anyone claim that they are. If you haven't noticed in history the Jews tended to get killed a lot and Christians and Muslims tend to fight a lot. We probably chucked our relics at each others heads. but thats our fault.

Answer 8

Hinduism is considerably older than Judaism. By definition, Jews didn't exist until 3760BC (when Adam & Eve were "created"..... I wonder who circumcized Adam?), but Hinduism was already flourishing as a group of "animist" faiths at that time. Hard to say who was practicising it, as the bible teaches us no-one was there!

Answer 9

Judaism never claims to be the oldest religion, just the first real monotheistic one. also, judaism did not prize relics like temples and such...there are stone monoliths and circles that have been found, though.

Answer 10

Very hard to figure out what exactly it is you want answered.

Are you asking if Judaism is the oldest religion? No it is not.

Are you asking why other religions died out? Try wikipedia.

Please try and phrase easier to answer questions.